Escalade Style nightstand

[Jason Zwiefel]

Hey folks. Last year my wife visited the local amish store and wanted me to make this nightstand for her.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.amishshowroom.com/images/Amish%2520furniture%2520escalade%2520-BEC-12.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.amishshowroom.com/index.php%3Fmain_page%3Dindex%26cPath%3D1_10&usg=__XloswE-tTr73L7WX4A8GLnHjThQ=&h=628&w=584&sz=202&hl=en&start=1&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=vhLOxQW7gCL0TM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Descalade%2Bnightstand%26hl%3Den%26gbv %3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1

After a few visits to the store and some funny looks from the clerk when I was inspecting the stand and writing down measurements I began working on it last winter. I pretty much have it all put together, Just need to put on the drawer fronts. The question I have regards the area surrounding the drawer pulls on the drawer front. It seems that they somehow "dished" out a round area around the pull. How would a fella do that? I thought a router bit, or maybe sandpaper? I'm at a loss.

Any thoughts?

I hope the link above works.

[Tom Sontag]

My guess is either pop the front on a lathe or find a cove cutting router bit that is the right size and raise it up into the front.

[Peter Quinn]

drill press with a rosette cutter or a plunge router with a bowl cutter. one of these might work, but you want to be careful how you do that if using a router.

http://www.infinitytools.com/Crown-Molding-Router-Bits/products/1397/

[Cody Colston]

A carving gouge and sandpaper?

[Jamie Buxton]

With this title, I expected to see a giant nightstand with a Cadillac grill.

You can make the dished out area with a router bit http://www.eagleamerica.com/product/v130-2815